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Regional income inequality in selected large countries

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002422179

Is there convergence of Russia's regions? : exploring the empirical evidence ; 1995 - 2010

Lehmann, Hartmut; Silvagni, Maria Giulia - 2013

Russia, the social services sector of the public administration, education and health still do not have the expected …

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Spatial income inequality in India, 1993-2011 : a district level decomposition

Azam, Mehtabul; Bhatt, Vipul - 2016

Using nationally representative household survey data, and district and state as two levels of aggregation, we examine role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find that between-state income differences account for the...

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Reversing fortunes of German regions, 1926-2019 : boon and bane of early industrialization?

Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian; Franke, Richard - 2022

This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany's economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we establish that nearly half of them...

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Income inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador : different reasons

Aristizábal-Ramirez, Maria; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2015

This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 … regressions and decompositions of standard Gini indices. Although popular opinion and standard Gini indices suggest Colombia to …'s or Ecuador's. In 2010, educational achievement explains over 10.9 percent of the Gini score in Colombia, 6.3 percent in …

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The regional distribution of public employment : theory and evidence

Kessing, Sebastian; Strozzi, Chiara - 2012

We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The...

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Continental and sub-continental income inequality

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Regional disparities and inequality of opportunity : the case of Italy

Checchi, Daniele (contributor); … - 2005

inequality of opportunity. -- equality of opportunity ; justice ; education …

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Geographies of socio-economic inequality

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022

the influence of spatial inequalities on individual outcomes in terms of health, education, work and income, and general …

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Explaining regional disparities in housing prices across German districts

Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022

Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional disparities: growth rates were higher in 1) the largest seven cities, 2) districts located in the south, and...

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